PURPOSE: This rule provides administratiueprocedures for implementation of the Success Leads to Success Program which is mandated in Senate Bill 380.

1. (1) Successful programs are those which result in measurable improvement in student performance. Successful programs may be identified for the Success Leads to Success Program in the following way:

   1. (A) They may be cited by Missouri’s School Improvement Program Review Teams during evaluation visits;
   2. (B) They may be nominated by an area supervisor, by a district administrator or staff member, or by other interested persons or organizations;
   3. (C) They may beidentified through the state and national school recognition program conducted by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education; or
   4. (D) Exemplary teacher education practices and programs are also eligible for nomination.

2. (2) To assess the individual merits of program nominations, the Success Leads to Success Program shall rely on general criteria for educational effectiveness and specific guidelines for interpreting evidence of success.

   1. (A) General criteria for successfui programs will include:

      1. 1. Improvements in academic aehieve-

ment citing changes in knowledge and skills;

1. 2. Improvements in staff attitudes and

behaviors in order to imurove the teachine PPXBS;

1. 3. Imorovement in students’ attitudes and

behavior; that in the long term lead to educationally desirable outcomes:

1. 4. Improvement in instructional practices

and procedures that are efficient, cost. and labor-effective, and improve student services that are linked to longer-term educationally relevant outcomes; and 5 Other areas identified by the state board of education.

1. (B) Specific guidelines for interpreting evidence of SUCCESS will include:

   1. I. An abstract of the program including

basic program information;

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1. 2. A description of the program including

goals, purposes, theoretical/research based framework and operational design;

1. 3. A discussion of the potential for repli-

cation in other schools and districts to include reauirements and costs associated with revlic&on; and

1. 4. Evidence of SUCCESS to include an

evaluation of the program. (3) The recognition of successful programs will bemade through theawardingofgrants to districts for the dissemination of information about successful programs to allow for the expansion, continuation or replication of the program using other revenue sources. (4) The exchange of information about successful programs may be facilitated by sponsoring an annual conference to showcase successful programs and by awarding grants for travel to view successful programs or to present information about successful programs. (5) Dissemination of information about successful programs will be accomplished through activities such as publication of an annual booklet about successful programs and production of information packages about successful programs which would be made available to school districts on a cost recovery basis. Auth: section 160.530, RSMo (Cum. Supp. 19931.’ Original rde filed Aug. 26, 1993, effective April 9,1994.